The other side of the gas and air maternity scandal
Amid the righteous distress of pregnant women, we mustn’t forget that midwives are women too.
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Labour ignores young women’s health at its peril
A new breakthrough in treatment for endometriosis provides a welcome opportunity for the opposition – if it recognises it.
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Allelujah is Alan Bennett’s ode to the NHS
His 2018 play, set in a Yorkshire geriatric ward, is now a starry movie – with a pandemic-focused final act.
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Wes Streeting: “NHS privatisation could not be further from my aims”
The shadow health secretary on the Labour left, trans rights and the case against outsourcing health services.
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NHS turns to AI to solve its “missed appointments” problem
The health service believes an algorithm can help cut waiting times. Experts are less certain it is the solution.
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The NHS workforce crisis could be solved by reforming medical training
The government is focused on recruiting consultants, but supporting the development of experienced doctors is also vital to filling vacancies.
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The Policy Ask with Tina Woods: “Digitalisation should not trump doctors’ expertise”
The preventative health expert on NHS bureaucracy, healthy ageing and what the UK could learn from Singapore.
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How to win a strike negotiation
As the government and nurses enter “intensive” discussions over pay, a trade union negotiator reveals how talks unfold.
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Focus on prevention to keep the NHS true to its soul
On the 75th anniversary of the UK’s national healthcare system, we must ensure it stays true to its founding ethos.
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The case for a four-day working week has never been stronger
Reduced hours on full pay would relieve a labour market overheated by high rates of quitting, early retirement and ill…
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The health crisis nobody is talking about
Less than a year after it was made, the government has broken its promise to address health inequalities.
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The NHS is “a sickness service, not a health service,” say MPs
The Health and Social Care Committee wants the government to prioritise prevention alongside the NHS backlog.
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Forcing sick people into work only makes the economy sick
It’s a vicious circle – aggravating illnesses only puts more pressure on the NHS.
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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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How Rishi Sunak could be out by the end of the year
If the local elections go badly and the Prime Minister fails to impress, Tory MPs may take revenge.
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Can “virtual wards” fix the NHS’s state of emergency?
As health workers go back on strike, Adrian Boyle of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says the government’s plan…
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How can NHS strikes be resolved?
Nurses and paramedics are fighting poor pay and conditions. Somehow the government needs to find the money to reverse years…
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The women locked out of fertility treatment by the BMI scale
Body Mass Index was invented by a statistician to define the “average man”. Why is it pushing women to extreme…
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Women shouldn’t have to depend on loyalty cards for diagnosis
If healthcare took female pain seriously, maybe we’d consult our GPs in the first place.
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Just repeating “Reform!” won’t magically fix the broken NHS
The reforms a system like the health service needs most can’t happen without actually spending more money.
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